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Religious Right & Catholic Bishops Plan Post-NY Marriage Strategy

By Peter Montgomery

…nti-marriage forces plotted their next steps in New York, Minnesota, North Carolina, and elsewhere. NOM responded to its “betrayal” by lawmakers who had previously voted or campaigned against marriage equality by vowing political reprisals and pledging to spend $2 million to unseat those legislators. Meanwhile, the bishops, who were outmaneuvered by a straight, Catholic governor in one of the most heavily Catholic states in the country, are planni…

Seven-in-Heaven Way, Hybrid Pope, & “Chrislam”

By Michael J. Altman

…hrowing a camp meeting with a big tent at the Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina this weekend. Catholic leaders in Spain have lined up corporate sponsors for Benedict the XVI’s visit in August, much to the chagrin of some Spanish priests. The Pope’s plans for a solar-powered popemobile failed but he was able to get a hybrid. The Vatican isn’t giving up on technology, though, as they are lending out iPods to pilgrims at basilicas with an app tha…

Elections Show Growing Support for LGBT from People of Faith

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to serve in the state legislature. –Marcus Brandon’s election to the North Carolina House. Brandon will be the state’s only openly gay state legislator and one of just five out African Americans to serve as state lawmakers. Brandon even won the endorsement of Rev. Cardes Brown, pastor of New Light Missionary Baptist Church and president of the Greensboro NAACP. Even though he said his endorsement would cause “repercussions and some backlash” Rev….

Muslims Wearing Things, Tea Party Chastised on Nazi Talk, and Politicking in Church

By Michael J. Altman

…ffle about a Christian flag flying over a veterans memorial in King, North Carolina continues with one veteran standing guard to make sure the city council doesn’t remove it. A Louisiana parish has banned the observance of Halloween this Sunday. Trick or Treaters can celebrate on Monday the 1st but face a fine of $500 and up to 30 days in jail for knocking on doors on the 31st. A religious stereotypes Venn diagram according to Google. Germans don’…

Evangelicals and Newt: Love Him or Hate Him?

By Sarah Posner

…ndorse. Although conservative evangelicals tend to be monolithic on issues, they are not so much on personalities. And if you remember the 2008 campaign, it was the split among evangelical voters in South Carolina that led to McCain’s victory there and his march to the nomination. The candidates know they don’t have to win over all evangelicals — just enough of them. …

Teaching the Dalai Lama’s Monks: Better Religion Through Science

By Arri Eisen

…, six hours a day learning science from a tall white Jewish guy from North Carolina. Religion often has a hard time of it, especially among academics, and especially among scientists. Of course academics have no problem studying religion and raising big money to establish endowed chairs, centers, and institutes devoted to just that. But actually being religious or even discussing personal beliefs or spirituality at all, is rare and, if anything, d…

Gingrich, Frontrunner, Touts Personhood in 14th Amendment

By Sarah Posner

…ongress to do so and attempt to “block” (his word) the Supreme Court from reviewing the constitutionality of such a law. Gingrich is apparently the only one of the presidential candidates to run with George’s proposal. At a similarly styled forum in South Carolina in September, George befuddled the other candidates with his questions about his personhood idea. UPDATE: Fertilized eggs should have equal protection, but children should work as jan…

Christian-Only Prayer Rally The Response Goes To Early Primary States

By Sarah Posner

…but it’s hard to imagine how a rally in Cedar Rapids in December, ones in South Carolina and Florida in January don’t have some connection to the primary process. According to the website, the purpose of the rallies is “to call on Jesus on behalf of America, that He might hear our cry and that we would see a revolution of righteousness in this country.” The website states, “we will not rest until we see a righteous revolution awaken the church.”…

Personhood Activists Regroup as “Next Civil Rights Movement”

By Sarah Posner

…rotection of the law: immaturity. And at a presidential candidate forum in South Carolina a few months ago, Manhattan Declaration author Robert George stunned even the GOP hopefuls with his question about whether, as president, they would “propose to Congress appropriate legislation pursuant to the 14th Amendment to protect human life in all stages and conditions.” That is, George was proposing not a human life amendment to the Constitution—someth…

Occupy’s Sacred Mob and the Politics of Vagrancy

By Vincent Gonzalez

…“Get a job!” is easily answered by “I have two, but unemployment in North Carolina is over ten percent.” This is the Occupation of Chapel Hill. It is the morning of Halloween. In these cold moments I remember Roger Caillois’ lecture on “The Winter Wind.” The Collège de Sociologie, a mid-century experiment in philosophical activism headed by Caillois and Georges Bataille, may have been Occupy Wall Street’s philosophical school, come too early: “A…